Leading a Whole-School Strategy for EAL (Online Course)
- Date
- 16 January 2024
- Time
- 9:00am
- Price
- £40-£60
- Type
- Online course
Explore our policy recommendations for breaking down language barriers
in schools, adult education, and the criminal justice system.
How to Adapt Teaching for Learners who use EAL (Online Course)
This course provides guidance on how teachers can adapt their teaching to meet the language development needs of pupils who use EAL.
This online course explores the distinctive nature of adaptive teaching when taking into account a learner’s proficiency in English. It provides guidance on how you can adapt your curriculum teaching in a responsive way to meet the language development needs of your pupils who use English as an Additional Language (EAL).
Who should register for this course?
- Teaching staff (from primary or secondary schools)
- Teaching assistants
- EAL coordinators
What will you do on the course?
- Study a range of easy-to-use strategies that you can implement immediately into your teaching to facilitate better learning and integration within mainstream lessons.
- Do two hours of flexible online study over a four-week period.
- Work at a manageable pace with plenty of time to process course content and consider relevance to your context.
- Take part in highly interactive and collaborative activities, with opportunities to work with other course participants, course tutors and course material.
- Join a live one-hour webinar with opportunities to ask questions and share best practice in real time.
- Complete an assignment based on the content of the course, which will receive detailed feedback to guide you in implementing your learning in school.
A certificate will be awarded for successful completion of the course.
Course dates: 1 - 25 November.
Ticket sales close Tuesday 25 October 4pm.
If the course is full, please complete the Wait List form and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. The Foundation is running this course again in September 2023, which you can sign up for here.
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Course Outline:
Module One
Pre-webinar online tasks: completed at your own pace over a seven-day period.
Time commitment: approximately 60 minutes.
Module Two
Live interactive webinar with the course tutors:
- Primary: Wednesday 9 November 16:00 – 17:00
- Secondary: Thursday 10 November 16:00 – 17:00
Time commitment: 60 minutes.
Module Three
Post webinar online tasks: completed at your own pace over a two-week period.
Time commitment: approximately 60 minutes.
Please note: this course is not available to international schools. Please click here to view our upcoming Language for Results International online courses.
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Your trainer, Emily
Emily Curran joined The Bell Foundation as a trainer in September 2018. Prior to joining The Bell Foundation, Emily worked in English Language Teaching (ELT) and taught both adults and young learners in the UK and Thailand respectively, before going on to become a teacher trainer in the ELT sector. Emily has a CELTA and DELTA and has also worked closely with Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) as a liaison for the English Language Provision.
Your trainer, Karen
Karen Warwick joined The Bell Foundation as a trainer in November 2020. She has worked as an EAL specialist teacher in a range of primary schools as part of a large EAL team in London and Wales for the past 22 years. More recently Karen has worked in this field in an independent capacity. Building capacity and promoting inclusive EAL provision and practices in schools has been central to her work.